P Parameswaran

A top US lawmaker calls on President Bush to suspend free trade talks with Malaysia in protest over its mega energy deal with nuclear renegade Iran.

Malaysia is concerned that Apec is concentrating on an increasingly broad portfolio beyond its original economic and trade mandate, says trade minister Rafidah Aziz.

Officials said the US authorities last raised the Anwar issue when Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi made his first visit to Washington in July after taking over from Mahathir Mohamad in November.

The determined 23-year-old Nurul has met officials at the White House, the State Department and Congress as well as human rights groups.

I am personally spearheading administrative reforms in the government that will cut red tape and make the civil service more responsive and efficient, says the premier.

A new policy on Iraq from the new PM? Malaysia is prepared to rally support among Muslim countries for OIC participation in rebuilding Iraq, says Abdullah.

Washington hails Malaysia's arrest of a blackmarket nuclear agent, saying it could be a breakthrough in global efforts to dismantle Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan's illicit nuclear network.

Developing and developed nations have neared consensus on several contentious trade issues giving fresh hopes for the relaunch of the Doha Round of global talks, the Malaysian trade minister said in Washington today.

Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad warns the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum is in danger of turning into a security grouping as the United States pushes for a greater military role in the region.

Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi held talks today with Philippine President Gloria Arroyo to help jumpstart negotiations aimed at ending a 25-year-old Filipino Muslim rebellion.

A special envoy of Philippine President Gloria Arroyo will meet Abdullah Ahmad Badawi tomorrow to seek Malaysia's help in bringing Filipino Muslim separatists to the negotiating table and end escalating violence in the southern Philippines.